Kids Camp

Send your kids to camp for the evening! After a full day of national park discovery, enjoy a romantic dinner in or indulge in a long-awaited relaxing spa treatment at while your kids enjoy a fun-filled evening of their own. Our camp counselors will accompany your children for activities, arts & crafts, movies, dinner and games.

Archery

Travel back in time to the days of Robin Hood at our Sierra Mountain Archery Range! Using traditional recurve bows, you and your family ages 5 and up will hone your archery skills and become masters of the bow. This 30 minute course includes a brief instruction on how to use the bow, and then you're free to shoot as many arrows as you can at our targets.

Big Creek 1 Hour Trail Ride

This is our most popular ride. You'll depart from the Pack Station and be guided through tall pines and meander along the banks of Big Creek, one of the most pristine rivers in the area. Offered May through November, weather permitting. Pricing subject to change. For trail ride times, please contact our concierge.

Steam Train Rides

Do you hear that train a-coming? Thrill to the sights and sounds of steam powered railroading just around the bend from Tenaya Lodge at the Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad. Vintage Shay locomotives provide the motive power for the one hour narrated excursion over tracks once used for logging trains at the turn of the century. Daily rides are available all summer.

Jenny Rail Cars

Ride the quaint "Model A" powered railcars. Our railcars were once used to provide transportation for logging and track repair crews. Antique Model A Ford gas engines power the trolley-like cars over the same route as the Logger Steam Train.

Gold Panning

Join the rush and pan for real gold at Gold Rush City, just 5 minutes from Tenaya Lodge. A Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine prospector will give a hand and demonstrate the technique to find the yellow treasure just like the Ol' Forty-Niners! Fun for all members of the family!

Tenaya Lodge Ice Skating

Tenaya’s sparkling white ice rink measures an expansive 80 feet by 40 feet, and is open for day and evening skating sessions. Enjoy the romance and family fun of gliding over the ice while surrounded by the Sierra National Forest. Ice skating is a winter sport that’s a fun challenge for all ages and abilities.

Kids Snowmobiling

At Tenaya Lodge at Yosemite kids and snowmobiling go hand-in-hand. Here, they can experience the Sierra on their own Arctic Cat Junior Snowmobile. The run is just outside Tenaya's doors at "Winterdale" – and is guaranteed to get “awesome” reviews..